Jatropha erythropoda Pax & K. Hoffm.

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Jatropha erythropoda

Photo: Ton Rulkens
Covane Community Lodge, Massingir district, Gaza province

Jatropha erythropoda

Photo: Ton Rulkens
Covane Community Lodge, Massingir district, Gaza province

Jatropha erythropoda

Photo: Ton Rulkens
Covane Community Lodge, Massingir district, Gaza province

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Status: Native
Description:
An erect, somewhat fleshy perennial herb up to 30 cm high, growing from elongate or ellipsoid, smooth, red, tubers; stems reddish-tinged, hairless below, pubescent above, rarely all hairless. Leaves irregularly pinnatipartite, 2–12 cm long, thinly textured, usually hairless, rarely sparingly puberulous towards the base, blueish-green; lobes with margins hyaline, lobulate, serrate or entire; lateral veins often indistinct; stipules simple, setaceous-filiform, bifid or trifid with filiform segments, c. 2 mm long, eglandular. petioles 1–8 mm long. Inflorescences terminal, up to 3 cm long; bracts lanceolate, 2–5 mm long, minutely toothed to subentire. Male flowers with petals creamy-white, up to 5.5 mm long; female flowers with petals white or pinkish, 6-8 mm long. Fruit depressed-globose, shallowly 3-lobed, 10–12 mm in diameter, very shallowly tuberculate, hairless.
Notes: The specimen in the images represent the first record for Mozambique.
Derivation of specific name: erythropoda: with red feet, referring to the reddish-tinged stems.
Habitat: In grassland and wooded grassland on sandy soils or at margins of pans and in mopane woodland.
Altitude range: 155 - 1400 m
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Worldwide distribution: Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.
Mozambique distribution: GI
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Content last updated: Tuesday 7 January 2020
Literature:

Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 22.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 42.

Radcliffe-Smith, A. (1996). Euphorbiaceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(4) Pages 271 - 272.

Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 57.

Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 208.

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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Jatropha erythropoda.
https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=135400, retrieved 29 March 2024

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